High Acuity Low Occurrence (HALO) (12 CPD points)

12 CPD points (issued by the School of Medicine, Cardiff University)

A bespoke course designed to upskill emergency physicians, surgeons and anaesthetists, to perform rare but high acuity emergency procedures during trauma patient resuscitation in the Emergency Department. This course has been developed to address the teaching and training needs in HALO procedures and takes advantage of:

• high-fidelity simulation facilities at Cardiff University’s Emergency Medicine Academic Centre (EMAC)
• training on animal tissue and high-fidelity thoracotomy manikins
• small group teaching of just 3 delegates per group
• highly skilled and experienced consultant faculty (with years of experience of working in both Emergency Departments and the pre-hospital environment).

HALO video

Who it’s for

This course is primarily designed for emergency physicians, surgeons and anaesthetists (at resident doctor and consultant levels) who attend trauma calls within their emergency department (in both Major Trauma Centres and Major Trauma Units). Content is appropriate for physicians and surgeons working in the UK and internationally.

What you’ll learn

Course content has been created in alignment with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) curriculum. Delegates will learn five HALO procedures and have the opportunity to practice these procedures in a simulated setting. On completion of this clinical CPD course delegates should be able to:

• recognise the indications and contraindications to each of the five HALO procedures
• appreciate the decision making and human factors for performing the HALO procedures
• perform a needle and surgical cricothyroidotomy
• manage a maternal cardiac arrest or peri-arrest with a resuscitative hysterotomy within 4 minutes of maternal death
• perform a resuscitative thoracotomy
• manage significant facial trauma/haemorrhage with facial packing
• perform a lateral canthotomy in orbital compartment syndrome
• use the ‘zero-point survey’ to optimise patient care and team coordination.

Topics covered

Pre-course learning (4 hours)

eLearning modules consist of video lectures and demonstrations, up-to-date reading recommendations and optional formative questions to test knowledge. All course material will be provided for 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after the face-to-face course.

Face to face course (7 hours)

Delegates will split into small groups of 3 to develop their skills with guidance from high performing emergency physicians and surgeons through both simulation and debrief / discussion sessions.

Timetable for the day:

Post-course 'open book' eAssessment (1 hour)

The post-course eAssessment will open following the face-to-face course. It can be sat in an open-book asynchronous fashion within 6 weeks of the end of the face-to-face course.

Benefits

This course has been issued with 11 CPD points. Other benefits include:

• blended delivery approach: eLearning component allows you to learn flexibly, in your own time, while the face-to-face session offers practical multidisciplinary peer learning
• small group teaching of only 3 delegates per station
• delivered by experienced faculty with high level skills and experience in both emergency and pre-hospital medicine
• train with high-fidelity manikins and equipment simulating challenging resuscitation room conditions
• network with peers and form mentorships to allow for ongoing practice and development.

Directions

This course takes place at the Emergency Medicine Academic Centre (EMAC) Education Suite, located on Floor 2, Tower Block 2/A, University Hospital of Wales.

Location